Imagine the supreme Sunday lunch, a feast for all the senses. The Art of Lunch celebrates the regenerating life-force of Spring with the five artists featured in Artful Alchemy, a concert to delight with high-calibre musicians, and a chef's masterpiece menu equally pleasing to the eye and tastebuds.

Roy McVeigh, Head Chef of multi-award winning Darley's Restaurant, has designed a delectable Spring-inspired menu with his own culinary alchemy, in harmony with the exhibition and music performance.

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Gang Gang Gallery's Sharon Howard said she was excited to bring an Art of Lunch event to Lithgow, as a first of its kind for the region.

"I think Art of Lunch brings a whole new perspective to art galleries," she said.

"It's a new initiative for this area, for people to come along and not just enjoy the space and the art, but a fantastic luncheon and music as well."

The event presents five well-known artists with totally different perceptions of Blue Mountains environments.

It is intriguing how each of these award-winning artist's interpretation of the natural environment is so distinctive.

Four of them, Jane Canfield, Nadege Lamy, Mellissa Read-Devine and Ray Harrington, start off with the same materials - paints, brushes, canvas - and transform these base elements into artworks that evoke emotional, and sometimes spiritual or philosophical, responses.

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Often painting 'en plain air', Jane Canfield's tonal studies can capture the seasonal chill of winter, the mountain's moody atmospherics or distant urbanscapes, discovering their essence in broad strokes rather than representational detail.

French-born and educated at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, Nadege Lamy has immersed herself into the Australian environment, which she interprets through the prism of her French-Australian culture and interest in Asian philosophies. She aims to express the meditative, spiritual exchange that she experiences.

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From her eyrie overlooking the Hawkesbury River, Mellissa Read-Divine uses expressionistic, immediate style to render vivid and spectacular large-scale paintings of river landscapes, flora and birdlife.

As a youth Ray Harrington frequented famous London galleries, drawing inspiration from Turner and French Impressionists. Since setting out in earnest on his creative path as a painter based at Blackheath, he has developed his own style of impressionism in oils with emphasis on light and colour.

Yaja Hadrys practices a different type of alchemy. She goes on seasonal gathering trips, collecting her Blue Mountains native plant materials - flowers, leaves, twigs, barks.

She concocts bundles of carefully selected plants, tightly binds them in a cocoon of silk and steams the bundles in her 'eucalyptus stews' . When the silk fabric is released from its cocoon you see its amazing transformation into silken echoes of nature.